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▪ I. vaticide1|ˈvætɪsaɪd| [f. L. vāti-, stem of vātēs prophet + -cide 1.] One who kills a prophet. Also fig.
1728Pope Dunc. ii. 74 Then first (if Poets aught of truth declare) The caitiff Vaticide conceiv'd a prayer. 1746Smollett Reproof 171, I see with joy, the vaticide deplore An hell-denouncing priest and sov'reign whore. 1749― Regicide Pref. p. vii, My Patience being by this Time quite exhausted, I desired a Gentleman who interested himself in my Concerns, to go and expostulate with the Vaticide [sc. the Manager of Drury-lane Theatre]. ▪ II. ˈvaticide2 rare. [f. as prec. + -cide 2.] The killing of a prophet.
1853Landor Wks. (1876) V. 119 Vaticide is no crime in the Statute-book. |